Alarms Are Pointless

Alarms seem to never fulfill the purpose that they were made for, that purpose being that you hear an alarm, you react to it, for example, you hear a car alarm go off, that means a car is being stolen, you call the police. But that's not the case, you hear a car alarm and your reaction isn't that it's being stolen, but there's a glitch, or it was set off by mistake, this is the case most of the time that it pretty much becomes a boy who cried wolf story, one of these days a car will be stolen, the alarm will go off and no one will actually think it's being stolen. I bring this up because I've noticed that this situation is starting to get worse. Recently, my nana moved into a retirement home, so we've been moving out all of her stuff from her house and yesterday we finished the job and shut off the power, or so we thought, either we glitched something or forgot something but the next day we got a call from the house's next door neighbours saying that the house alarm had been going off all night. Firstly, thank you to those neighbours who were polite enough to wait until morning to call us so not to wake us up, that's what British manners are all about. Secondly, sorry that you nor anyone else on the street got any sleep last night.

But here's my big problem with this scenario, apart from the neighbours who knew my nana had moved out, everyone else on that street wouldn't have a goddamn clue what was going on, so they all hear an alarm going off all night and no one does anything to react to it!? The middle of the night, alarm bells ring and alert the entire neighbourhood, they find out that the alarms are going off in an old woman's home, after a while, you would think they would have gotten suspicious that she hadn't turned them off, or at the very least annoyed to the point to investigate. For all they knew something could have been terrebly wrong and no one calls the police!? I mean I know us British are polite but we're not that polite. I would have thought that if an alarm was going off all night then someone would have gone out to investigate, or are we just living in that ignorant of a society?

-Danny